In addition to beer, make my own: wine (sometimes) sauerkraut and pickels (fermented), pickled eggs (vinegar cured), hot sauce (with peppers from my garden), home grown spices (fresh and dried), sour dough bread (from my own sour dough culture, though I need to start up a new one).
What do you guys think about setting up a dummy website where we can trade stuff with each other? I roast my own coffee, make wine and the wife does everything chocolate…do you think this could work? Of course I brew beer like all of you guys do but, I can do special Holiday/Special occasion stuff on demand and put it in the mix…just thinking about stuff…
Might work if someone is willing to do the work. Maybe a new thread in " the pub" would be in order. I think we’re drifting a bit from general homebrew discussion
Sowed the barley today. There were 2 different varieties of 2 row and 6 row. I think I can tell them apart, as the 6 row separates the 2 row varieties. We will wait and see how my farming experiment goes.
Bacon and hot sauce.
It’s hard to get many things to grow through the Texas summer and we get invasions of locusts where I live which makes it difficult to grow many leafy plants. One locust will strip a hop bine in under a day. They won’t touch pepper or tomato plants and certain herbs so that’s pretty much all I can grow. I would love to pull out half the yard and plant edibles but it wouldn’t work well and I’d have to re-sod before we move in a few years so it would be a lot of work for nothing.
My patch that I sowed 3+ weeks ago is doing well. It filled in well and is about 4 inches tall. I left about a foot bare between the 6 row and 2 row.
I’ve always wanted to try making a gruit beer. Thought Midas Touch was pretty good.
Like the rest I do a lot myself. Americans appear to have lost a lot of the old knowledge but are picking it back up again.
Sweet onion tops are starting to fall over. I’m out so will begin plucking them out of the ground very soon.
Wow. Up here I’m at least another month or more before I can even pick scallions.
I do agree that we’ve come to a time recently where more and more of us have interest in learning some old-time skills before they become lost to the ages. Technology has become a vital part of our lives, and it’s a great thing. But it’s a nice feeling to be connected back to nature in a more primal way.
My 3-year old planted the “Three Sisters” in preschool yesterday. That was pretty cool to hear about.
I had never heard of the 3 sisters garden before. Very interesting. Having grown up on a farm where we still practiced crop rotation it made perfect sense.
Thanks!
Paul